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Richard William Byrne

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Richard William Byrne
NationalityBritish
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of St Andrews
Main interestsEvolution of behavior

Richard William Byrne is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience of the University of St Andrews.[1]

With an h-index of 77, he is renowned in the area of the evolution of cognitive and social behavior, and being one of the leading scholars of the Machiavellian intelligence hypothesis.[2]

Selected research

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  • Townsend, S.W., Koski, S.E., Byrne, R.W., Slocombe, K.E., Bickel, B., Boeckle, M., Braga Goncalves, I., Burkart, J.M., Flower, T., Gaunet, F. and Glock, H.J., 2017. Exorcising G rice's ghost: An empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews, 92(3), pp. 1427–1433.
  • Hobaiter, C. and Byrne, R.W., 2014. The meanings of chimpanzee gestures. Current Biology, 24(14), pp. 1596–1600.
  • Hobaiter, C. and Byrne, R.W., 2011. Serial gesturing by wild chimpanzees: its nature and function for communication. Animal cognition, 14(6), pp. 827–838.
  • Hobaiter, C. and Byrne, R.W., 2011. The gestural repertoire of the wild chimpanzee. Animal cognition, 14(5), pp. 745–767.
  • Whiten, A. and Byrne, R.W., 1988. Taking (Machiavellian) intelligence apart. Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press.

References

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  1. ^ "Richard William Byrne". Research at St Andrews. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Richard Byrne". Google Scholar. Retrieved 16 April 2021.